For the people who say that the game is dead or is abandoned by the dev. This is Adam's(the dev) reply to a comment under "CHORDOSIS - OFFICIAL GAMEPLAY TRAILER" video on his YT channel, posted 2 weeks ago:
"Thank you for playing my game, and thank you so much for all of your kind words!
My source control says that I've been working on my game for the past 631 days for the almost 2 years since I started using source control for backups.
I'm still alone with CHORDOSIS, I still have no other large projects, I'm still really really hesitant on any kind voice acting, but also I really do love working on it almost every day.
I've revorked a lot, and the game is so far beyond of what I've uploaded as an "in dev" founders edition on itch.
I still want to strongly emphasize that if you own the founders edition on itch, youll get the full game as an update, with an additional founders episode. (but sooner or later I'll have to flag the current version as "legacy" cause my save system is also new)
I hope you (and all the 100s if not more) will enjoy what my vision is with CHORDOSIS, and what I'm pouring my heart into."
While he could be lying, I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt, considering he is a solo dev. Furthermore, many developers prefer to work 'quietly', without giving too much (or any) insight into development process (e.g. Team Cherry), so there's that.